Little Miss Sunshine | 
| Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Actors: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin, Paul Dano
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  529 reviews
Sales Rank: 1310
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 2240331
UPC: 024543403319
EAN: 0024543403319
ASIN: B000K7VHQE
Theatrical Release Date: August 18, 2006
Release Date: December 19, 2006
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Product Description
Little Miss Sunshine tells the story of the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families ever seen on motion picture screens. Together, the motley six-member family treks from Albuquerque to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, to fulfill the deepest wish of 7-year-old Olive, an ordinary little girl with big dreams. Along the way the family must deal with crushed dreams, heartbreaks, and a broken-down VW bus, leading up to the surreal Little Miss Sunshine competition itself. On their travels through this bizarrely funny landscape, the Hoovers learn to trust and support each other along the path of life, no matter what the challenge.
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Pile together a blue-ribbon cast, a screenplay high in quirkiness, and the Sundance stamp of approval, and you've got yourself a crossover indie hit. That formula worked for Little Miss Sunshine, a frequently hilarious study of family dysfunction. Meet the Hoovers, an Albuquerque clan riddled with depression, hostility, and the tattered remnants of the American Dream; despite their flakiness, they manage to pile into a VW van for a weekend trek to L.A. in order to get moppet daughter Olive (Abigail Breslin) into the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. Much of the pleasure of this journey comes from watching some skillful comic actors doing their thing: Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette as the parents (he's hoping to become a self-help authority), Alan Arkin as a grandfather all too willing to give uproariously inappropriate advice to a sullen teenage grandson (Paul Dano), and a subdued Steve Carell as a jilted gay professor on the verge of suicide. The film is a crowd-pleaser, and if anything is a little too eager to bend itself in the direction of quirk-loving Sundance audiences; it can feel forced. But the breezy momentum and the ingenious actors help push the material over any bumps in the road.-- Robert Horton
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Pretty Funny! June 18, 2009
Avid Camper (USA)
This movie was not quite what we expected and started out rather strangely, but was pretty funny and kind of cute. Was worth the money. Glad we bought it. Would do so again.
 And I hate comedies June 10, 2009
HatesACK (land of the idiots (especially in summer))
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I hate comedies and I don't like movies that are inappropriate. There was a lot of sexual humor in this one. I wouldn't recommend it for kids.
But all that is beside the point. This is the most hysterical movie I have ever seen in my entire life. I laughed so hard that I cried throughout almost the entire thing. And that's saying a lot coming from me.
Zaney Movie, Unfortunate Ending May 27, 2009
Randy Keehn (Williston, ND United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had no idea what to expect from "Little Miss Sunshine" but I knew that it was nominated for "Best Picture" so it must have had something going for it. I caught on quickly that this is not your ordinary movie and I soon realized that anything could happen. This is a story of a hopelessly dysfunctional family whose many seperate parts find a most unusal way of coming together. You can see it coming and it really becomes rather impressive to watch. However, this film disappointed me in how it ended.
I was bothered by the portrayal of the phoney plastic young girls in the Little Miss Sunshine. Let's face it, movies and TV stereotype just about everything. For some groups it has been a real issue. However, when was the last time you saw a pageant portrayed as a number of young ladies striving to become the best that they could be with every participant exiting the event as a better person than when they started? I've attended a lot of pageants over the years (thanks primarily because our town annually hosts the state's Miss America contest). The reality of the quality of the participants has always impressed me as far exceeding the demeaning stereotype that permeants society's general impressions. Maybe it's an overblown reation but it bothered me how the movie strayed from what I saw as a theme of how to become a success. All of the film's unusual family members had failed to achieve their goals except for our young and endearing heroine. How the movie treated her moment on the stage really bothered me. Otherwise, this is an enjoyable albeit unusual film.
I guess I should acknowledge that the message of "Little Miss Sunshine" might possibly be that the problem with chasing our dreams is that they can turn into nightmares. Be happy with what life allots you while laughing at those who haven't yet had their comeuppance. This could have been such a better movie! Oh well, I noticed that this was an independent film so perhaps they were poking fun at Hollywood's glamour girls with more looks than talent while the Indie actors were doing the heavy lifting. See, none of this really scores any points. Oh well, enjoy "Littler Miss Sunshine" for what it is rather than what it isn't.
Ode To Familial Dysfunction May 21, 2009
D. Mikels (Skunk Holler)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A question: What do you get when you mix a father who happens to be a self-help guru wannabe (Greg Kinnear); a foul-mouthed, lascivious (yet well meaning) grandfather (Alan Arkin); a sullen, rebellious teenager who refuses to speak (Paul Dano); a despondent, suicidal brother (Steve Carell); a cherubic, enthusiastic, young daughter (Abigail Breslin); and a frazzled mother trying to hold it all together (Toni Collette)? Pick the daughter as a last-minute contestant for a preteen pageant hundreds of miles away, throw the family into a broken-down Volkswagon bus, and you've got LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, a delightful yet poignant comedy with a definite aftertaste.
This is a film not for the faint of heart (there are some very adult themes that are vetted), and while the viewer is exposed to constant dysfunction and conflict and disruption, we do eventually learn that blood is thicker than water, as the Hoover family definitely circles the wagons when one of their own has her back against the wall. The movie stays on track until the sudden flight from the hospital--when the metaphorical shark is jumped--yet for the most part LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE is bawdy entertainment at its finest. Special kudos to Carell and Arkin for terrific performances.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
A feel good movie May 11, 2009
GrandmaBerta (Albuquerque, NM)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great movie that starts off depressing and ends with a burst. A few F words, so it would be a problem to watch as a family with young children the same age as the girl in the movie who is made to cover her ears.
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